Boxing

Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder is beside himself in the wake of his opponent, Luis “King Kong” Ortiz, testing positive for two banned diuretics in the lead-up to their Nov. 4 fight. The bout, one of the most significant of the year and due to headline a Showtime-televised card at Barclays Center in New York,

BOSTON — Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan charged out of his corner at the sound of the opening bell and tore into Nick “The Machine” Quigley with a sustained, two-handed assault that didn’t subside until referee Arthur Mercante stopped the fight at the 1:23 mark of the fourth round. The scheduled 10-round middleweight bout, emanating from the

12:18 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Mairis Briedis shrugged off a cut above his eye to unanimously outpoint Mike Perez on Saturday and set up a semifinal against Oleksandr Usyk

The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. In Eig’s view then, Ali was a “superhero.” The 53-year-old journalist told an audience on Sunday at Chicago’s Emanuel Congregation that he was dumbfounded a few years ago over a

Fresh off one of the richest events in combat sports history, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor is the No. 1 target of virtually every boxer and mixed martial artist in the world. And he certainly knows it. During a public appearance Friday in Glasgow, Scotland — McGregor’s first since last month’s lucrative boxing match against

Nevada sportsbooks won $33.9 million in August, an all-time high for the month that was bolstered by the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight. Nevada Gaming Control officials estimate that $65 million was wagered on Mayweather-McGregor, making it the most heavily bet boxing match in the state’s history. The sportsbooks kept roughly $15 million of the money

Sep 29, 2017 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Tony Bellew and David Haye have agreed terms for a rematch at London’s O2 Arena on Sunday Dec. 17. The rematch will be a

The highly anticipated Nov. 4 showdown between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and Luis “King Kong” Ortiz — undefeated power punchers facing their best opponent — shaped up as one of the most significant fights of the year. But now the fight will be canceled, after Ortiz tested positive for banned substances in a Voluntary

Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions, a joint venture between the former longtime pound-for-pound king and businessman Keith Veltre founded in 2013, has made a deal with television network beIN Sports to carry its cards through 2018. The first show under the agreement will air on Friday night beginning at 9 p.m. ET from Gilley’s in